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Storage health monitoring

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Storage health monitoring

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- [Instructor] Now I'd like to look at a little maintenance on hard drives. So off the start menu, I'm going to type in disc cleanup and then open up the Disc Cleanup app. It's asking me which drive I would like to check and I'm going to choose the C drive and hit okay. Then fairly quickly it will come up with an interface showing me some different categories of files that I may no longer need and therefore this wizard can delete those files for me. It shows the name of the category such as temporary internet files. Also the amount of storage currently being used there. For example, seven megabytes. And then there's a checkbox that will be used to indicate whether or not I want to delete these. And in this case, I do want to delete these temporary internet files. As I scroll down a little more, I can see I have about 10 megabytes of thumbnails that'll be deleted and 2.5 megabytes of temporary files. I'd…

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